INCLUSION & SEND

All children have a common entitlement to a broad balanced and enriched curriculum.

All pupils at St. Ives Junior School have access through a variety of resources. The modification of programmes of study for both more and less able pupils is vital in ensuring all pupils make progress and all pupils have challenging targets.

We respond to pupils’ diverse learning needs, and enable more suitable learning challenges to be set for all. Some pupils experience barriers to learning as a result of their disability, heritage, gender, special educational need, ethnicity, social group, race or culture.

These barriers to learning are recognised and support given to ensure all pupils are engaged and confident learners.

Throughout the school, pupils are explicitly taught the 5 lifelong learning dispositions: resilience, resourcefulness, responsibility, reflectiveness and reciprocity. Pupils are confident using our ‘learning language’ to discuss their learning, and how to discover the next step. We continue to build Learning Power at all levels.

Pupils who have individual educational needs such as learning, speech and language or physical difficulties, will be monitored and supported on the Record of Need. Pupils together with their parents or carers, have termly meetings with the class teacher to review progress towards set targets; to discuss new targets and the strategies which need to be actioned to enable the pupil to achieve new targets.

ICT often plays a large part in students accessing and addressing learning targets set. A teaching assistant supports learning in every classroom throughout the school each morning. This enables learners of all abilities to make maximum learning gains in every lesson.

Our SENDCo (Special Education Needs & Disabilities Co-ordinator) is Mrs Molly Barber. She can be contacted via the school office on 01736 796202 or by emailing enquiries@stivesjunior.org.uk